Pocket Power: Fall's Best Cargo Pants, Starring Douglas Booth

The cargo pants we all grew up with—the ones required for entry at Dave Matthews shows—were slouchy tragedies that made grown men look like college kids. The ones Douglas wears here, however, are tailored enough to go with a blazer. In fact, these days cargo pockets can appear on a blazer. Designers have gone pocket crazy, and we’re digging the way this pocketpalooza lends a tough military vibe to urbane looks. You actually could hunt, fish, and hike in these clothes, but they’re more sophisticated than what you’d usually wear to hack around the woods. The cargos now hitting stores range from stealth black to British khaki—all with enough storage to stash fishing lures, matches, iPhones, a comb, two Twinkies, a tape dispenser...

—Nick Marino

Shirt, $345, by Band of Outsiders. Henley, $115, by Gant Rugger. Pants, $775, by Brunello Cucinelli. Belt by United Arrows. Watch by Steven Alan. Hat by Todd Snyder + Bates.

Catch soon-to-be-everywhere British actor Douglas Booth as Romeo to Hailee Steinfeld's Juliet in the latest Hollywood adaptation of Ye Olde Bard. (This one’s written by the Downton Abbey guy). If that’s not on your radar, Booth's subsequent projects will be: Next year, he stars in new films by Darren Aronofsky and the Wachowskis.

Pocket Power: Fall's Best Cargo Pants, Starring Douglas Booth

Just a few years ago, cargo pockets were synonymous with everything embarrassingly bad about American style. But in one of the most unexpected trends of the fall, designers have reimagined them, snatching them back from the bong-suckin' frat boys and sewing them onto jackets, shirts, pants, and beyond. Here, actor Douglas Booth takes the new utilitarian look out for a long weekend in the wild

The cargo pants we all grew up with—the ones required for entry at Dave Matthews shows—were slouchy tragedies that made grown men look like college kids. The ones Douglas wears here, however, are tailored enough to go with a blazer. In fact, these days cargo pockets can appear on a blazer. Designers have gone pocket crazy, and we’re digging the way this pocketpalooza lends a tough military vibe to urbane looks. You actually could hunt, fish, and hike in these clothes, but they’re more sophisticated than what you’d usually wear to hack around the woods. The cargos now hitting stores range from stealth black to British khaki—all with enough storage to stash fishing lures, matches, iPhones, a comb, two Twinkies, a tape dispenser...

—Nick Marino

Shirt, $345, by Band of Outsiders. Henley, $115, by Gant Rugger. Pants, $775, by Brunello Cucinelli. Belt by United Arrows. Watch by Steven Alan. Hat by Todd Snyder + Bates.